4 people from Achham, 1/1 from Kailali and Banke, full address of another one is not revealed
Seven of the 13 people who lost their lives in a train accident in Pardhade taluka of Jalgaon district of Maharashtra, India are Nepalis. Among them, 4 are from Achham and one is from Kailali, while the addresses of the two have not been disclosed till Thursday evening.
Among the deceased are Nandaram Vick of Panchdeval Vinayak Municipality-4 of Achham, his wife Maisra and son Himu and 60-year-old Jayakala Kami of Kalbazar Municipality-4 Chalsa. 43-year-old Kamala Bhandari of Mohanyal Rural Municipality-6 Solta of Kailali. Similarly, Radheshyam Radh of Duduwa, Banke and Narayanpur have only Lachchiram Pasi whose address is open.
According to journalist Lalita Malati Singh who was at the scene, the injured Hyuzla Sawant and Dharma Bahadur Sawant of Acham Mangalsen and Deepak Thapa and Manju Pariyar of Dailekh are being treated.
Passengers jumped off the train after a fire broke out in the Pushpak Express going from Lucknow to Mumbai at Jalgaon in the state of Maharashtra on Wednesday evening. According to a railway official, the passengers aboard the Pushpak Express jumped into the bridge fearing a possible fire after smoke billowed from the wheels of the train. At that time, many of them were run over by the Karnataka Express train coming at high speed from the opposite direction.
60-year-old Jayakala of Kalbazar-4 Chalsa went to Maharashtra from Achham on Sunday after her son-in-law living in India called her for treatment. Nandaram of Panchdeval Vinayak Municipality-4 is his maternal relative. Jayakala, who went with Nandaram to meet her son and daughter and grandson, met with a train accident on Wednesday.
Jaykala, who has 5 sons and 4 daughters, was suffering from stomach pain for years. She was not able to receive treatment due to her poor financial condition. A daughter-in-law and a grandson are in Achham while all the rest of his children are scattered in different parts of India for employment.
It had been almost 5 years since he met his son-in-law and daughter-in-law. On the one hand, Jayakala wanted to have a child and on the other, to treat the disease that has been bothering her for years, but she could not reach her destination.
According to son-in-law Raju Vishwakarma, who reached the spot, Jayakala's body was found by the family on Thursday evening. 'Some of the sons are in distant cities in Maharashtra, some are coming from Himachal Pradesh, I have arrived at the scene,' Raju said on the phone, 'He came here for 5/6 months to meet all the children, he did not even get to see the children's faces.' He said that there is a discussion about cremation at Bhiundi in Maharashtra.
43-year-old Kamala Bhandari of Kailali Mohanyal Rural Municipality-6 Solta lost her husband 9 years ago. After that, the responsibility of raising the children was added to her. I was not able to afford the expenses of my children and family. Shortly after her husband's death, she went to Maharashtra, India, in search of work, on the trust of the village people. Since then she worked as a baby care worker in India and educated her children.
At present, the younger son and daughter are working and studying in Kathmandu. The eldest son Tapendra is working in a company that supplies goods in both Nepal and India. While returning to the same place of work after meeting her relatives, she got into a train accident.
'Grandfather died a month ago, mother went home to Kazkiria. After finishing all the work, he reached Kathmandu to meet his younger son and daughter-in-law as well,'' son Tapendra, who came in contact with Kantipur from Jalgaon, said, 'He met all the family in Kathmandu and went to Nepalgunj from there. He was coming by train from Lucknow via Rupaidia. The last time I spoke to my mother was around one o'clock. She got into a train accident at 5 o'clock.'
Kamala, who raised her children suffering in another country for years, wanted to work for a while and live with her children in Nepal. After my father passed away, my mother went abroad to teach us. It was definitely not easy for a woman to come to work in another country. Now we thought that we will keep our mother happy," said Tapendra.
Nandaram's brother Paila Vick, who lost his life along with his wife and son, also died a year ago at the age of 46 while working in India. The elder brother Brikise Vick was also ill for a long time in India. After the disease was not diagnosed, he returned from India in an ill condition and died at home. Vic family has lost 5 members in 5 consecutive years.
According to brother Dasharath Vick, Nandaram came from India to Nepalgunj to take his wife and son. Nandaram's wife Maisra along with about 12 people from Achham came down to Nepalgunj with her son.
'On Monday, 12 people along with their sister-in-law went from Acham to India. Dasarath said that the brother had come to take him to Nepalganj as it would be difficult to travel with a child on a long way,' Dasharath said, 'six of them, including three of my brother's family and two sons of sister-in-law Kamala, boarded the Pushpak train and went to Maharashtra, while the others boarded another train to Gujarat.' He said that there was nothing except Nandaram's family.
One son of Nandaram is studying in Surkhet and the other son is in India looking for work, he said. According to journalist Singh, who was at the scene, the railway department has announced an immediate compensation of Rs 150,000 to the families of the deceased and Rs 500,000 to the state government.
The Nepali ambassador in Delhi, Shankar Prasad Sharma, said that the embassy is in contact with the Indian authorities after the incident. He informed that coordination is being done to bring the body of the person who died in the incident to his family. SSP Sanjeev Sharma of Nepal Police, consul at the embassy, said that the Indian officer said it was his responsibility to deliver the body to the family.
'At the time of the incident, it was reported that 4 Nepali people had died, but later it was reported that the number had increased to 7,' said Consul Sharma.
